A/N: Now that Leila's out of the hospital, what do you think will happen next? The boys are becoming even more like brothers to her, especially in the protection department. When they get information about another hunt, what will they do with Leila? Bring her along? Leave her in some motel?
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The next morning, Leila wakes up sore and confused and looks around the hotel room. "Sam? Dean?" she groans. She starts to try to get up when she couldn't see her brothers from where she was positioned.
"Oh no, princess. You're not going anywhere." She hears Dean say. She hears his footsteps along with Sam's coming towards her bed.
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm just sitting up. You can chill." She says, rolling her eyes.
They help her sit up, anyways. Once upright, she looks around at the room and her brothers, eventually looking at her beaten body. "Where are we? What happened after we left the hospital?"
"You fell asleep not long after we gave you your pain medication. Then we went here, the nearest hotel, and you slept clear through the night." Sam explains.
Looking up at her brothers, she smiles a bit. "I guess those pain meds really work, right? Now what's next? Is there another case?" she asks, eager to get back into the field and be a hunter.
"Not so fast. You're going to rest for a while. We can't have you getting hurt again, right now. You have to get your strength back before we get you back in the field." Dean says.
"Dean, I'll be-", she starts, trying to argue but getting cut off by Dean.
"Don't say you'll be fine. We don't know what you can do out in the field yet. Your field test wasn't even really a field test. It was more of a beating. You need to learn to defend yourself before you go out in the field again. And before you can get any kind of training, you need to get back to being a hundred percent." Dean argues.
Leila sighs. "So what, then? Are you two just going to sit and stare at me and at each other for a couple weeks?" She knew that they wouldn't do that, so hoped to have found a flaw in their reasoning.
"No. We're taking you over to Bobby's place. You're going to stay there while Sammy and I hunt for a while." Dean says.
"Who's Bobby?" Leila asks. She was kind of bummed that her plan had backfired on her. She had no clue who Bobby was, but he just ruined her plan to get back in the field.
"An old friend of Dad's. They've been hunting buddies for years." Sam answers.
"He'll make sure you don't do anything stupid." Dean adds.
"Why don't you just leave me in a hotel room? I can take care of myself." Leila argues.
"I don't doubt that, but I doubt you'd stay there." Dean says. "So rest up, because as soon as you're ready, we're going to Bobby's." Dean walks away from Leila's bed and plops down onto the couch to watch some TV.
Sam sits on the bed next to Leila. "How are you feeling?" he asks with a look that clearly said 'Don't you dare lie to me.'
Leila sighs, accepting her situation and then answers. "I'm tired and in more pain than I've been in my entire life, but I'm proud. I'm finally a real hunter. Isn't nearly getting killed by a monster basically a requirement to be a true hunter?" she says with a slight laugh.
Sam smiles. "Kind of. I wish it wasn't, especially with you." He says, reaching out to touch Leila's hand. She grabs his hand and gives it a bit of a squeeze.
Leila smiles slightly and looks Sam in the eye. "I'm going to be fine. I knew what I was getting into by running off and fighting those monsters. I'm prepared for this to end up happening again."
"But I'm not." Sam says quietly. "I just got you. I just got a sister. I don't want to lose you. Not now, not ever." He looks at Dean, then back at Leila. "Dean is even more worried about you. He's been protecting his little brother for over twenty years, and he failed a few times to keep me safe. He's terrified that, now that he has a little sister, he's going to fail even more to protect us."
Leila looks at her big brother, sad to realize how much weight was on his shoulders. "So basically, but careful and don't do stupid things anymore?" she asks with a slight smile.
Sam nods and laughs slightly. "Yeah, yeah that would help."
Leila gives a bit of a laugh and looks at Sam. "So shall we go?" she says, loud enough for Dean to hear.
"You don't want to rest?" Sam asks, concerned for her well-being. "We aren't in any rush."
"I'm fine. Give me meds and I'll sleep through the whole car ride." She says with a smile.
She starts to swing her legs off of the bed and is about to get up when both of her brothers appear in front of her, urging her not to try to walk. She stands up anyway, but after nearly falling, she grabs Sam's hand and allows him to help her to the cars. Dean packs up their bags and throws them in the back of the Impala while Sam leads her to her car. She tries to get into the driver's seat out of habit, but Sam pushes her towards the back seat.
"If you're in that much pain and you're going to be on drugs for the next few days at least, you're not driving. I'll drive your car so Dean can still drive his Baby." Sam says with a small smile. Leila laughs and sits down in the backseat. Almost immediately, she lays down across the entire seat and simply waits for her brothers to be ready to leave. She realized fairly quickly that they would not let her help pack or do much of anything for a while.
Dean sticks his head in Leila's car to check on her. "We're about ready to leave. Sammy is just double checking that we got everything from the room." He looks at Leila with his best puppy-dog face. "Are you sure you're okay with this life? Because once you get in, you can't really get out."
Leila nods, looking Dean in the eyes. "I'm already in…and I like it. I'm not going back. My whole life has been a lie. Katie Smith wasn't real. Leila Winchester is who I want to be: fighting monsters with my brothers. You couldn't make me go back if you paid me." She was determined to stay with her brothers, no matter what sacrifices she had to make.
Dean sighs and shakes his head slightly. "You're definitely stubborn enough to be a Winchester." He gives a small smile and walks back to his Baby as Sam walks out. The brothers nod to each other, ready to get moving. Sam gets into Leila's car as Dean gets in the Impala and they start to drive off, Dean leading the way.
After a bit, they stop at a gas station and get some snacks, then get back on the road. Sam hands Leila a bag of chips, a hot dog, a soda, and her medication. Almost immediately after eating, Leila falls asleep across the back seat of her Malibu.
After a few hours, they get to Bobby's house and Sam gently wakes Leila up, offering his hand to help her out of the car and to the door where Dean was waiting with a couple of bags. Once the twins get to the door, Sam knocks.
Soon, a middle-aged man with a beard, mustache, flannel shirt, and baseball cap opens the door. "Sam? Dean? Is that you, boys?" he says with a smile. Leila is slightly hidden behind Dean, so Bobby had not seen her yet.
"Yeah. It's us, Bobby. Can we come in?" Dean asks. Bobby nods and steps aside to make room in the entryway. As Sam and Leila walk past, Bobby seems to do a double-take.
Sam leads Leila to a couch so that she can sit. Bobby looks at her as if she is a ghost. "Leila…It's so nice to finally meet you. You look just like your mother." He says with a broad smile.
The Winchesters all looked at Bobby with wide eyes and a silence hung in the room for a moment. Then Sam finally spoke up. "Wait…You knew about her?"
Bobby shrugs and explains. "Well yeah. Your father told me to keep an eye on her. I have my computer notify me every time anything about you ends up in the news, or even social media. When I saw the news article about you being in the hospital, I saw that these two idjits found you, and I figured you would end up here. Now, the news said that you had been mugged, but I think that's a load of crap. What actually happened? Did these two get you into trouble?"
"No, they didn't do anything to me. It was-" Leila defends the boys, then is cut off by Sam.
"Shadow Demons." Sam says.
"And two ghouls." Leila adds.
"She was almost killed on her first day because she was stupid and snuck off." Dean explains, giving Leila a firm look. Leila shrinks into the couch a bit.
"Hey, ease up, Dean." Bobby says with the same firm look. "While I can see her doing something like that, she was most likely just trying to help you. She just found out she has brothers and a dad that are all hunters, so she was trying to prove herself."
Leila nods. How Bobby saw all of that in her so quickly, she has no idea.
"So why are you kids here, anyway?" Bobby asks, leaning on his desk.
"We need you to take care of Leila for a while." Sam says.
"Why don't you just let her be in a hotel room like you two usually do?" Bobby asks.
"That's what I said." Leila says, happy that Bobby understood her.
"She wouldn't rest like she's supposed to. She would probably try to find a hunt to go on and get herself hurt again." Dean says, somewhat forcefully.
"I know my limits. I'm not stupid." Leila says quietly.
Bobby nods slightly, thoughtful. "I can see where you're coming from. I can keep an eye on her for a while, if you need me to," he says.
"Thanks, Bobby." Sam says, truly grateful for his help. He merely wanted to protect the sister he had newly acquired.
"Well we have another case to go check out. Any chance I can get some Hunter's Helper for the road?" Dean asks with a small grin. Bobby nods and walks to the kitchen.
"You want a bottle too, Sam?" Bobby calls.
"Why not," Sam says with a shrug. Leila looks to her brother, confused of this new terminology.
"Hunter's Helper?" she asks. Sam smiles slightly.
"That's what those two call alcohol. Usually it's beer, though sometimes it is stronger stuff," he explains.
"Leila, you want a beer?" Bobby asks.
"I'm fine. I don't think alcohol should be mixed with prescription pain killers," she reasons.
Bobby laughs and comes into the room with 3 beers. He hands the drinks to the boys and sits down. "What kind of case is it?" he asks.
"There's a house that three teens went into and saw a girl hanging in the basement, but she wasn't there when the police got there," Sam explains as he gets up.
"We should get going if we're going to get to Texas to take care of this before someone else gets hurt," Dean says as he gets up. He walks to Leila and takes her hand, with a small smile. "Be careful, okay? Don't do anything stupid," he says.
Leila grins slightly. "Don't worry. I'm sure Bobby won't let me do anything stupid." Dean gives her a light kiss on the top of her head, finally getting used to this whole sister thing. Then, he walks out towards Baby, giving Bobby a nod of thanks on his way out.
Sam walks up to Leila and sits next to her for a sec. He reaches into his pockets and pulls out a cell phone, handing it to Leila. "Here. This cell is safer for you now that you're going to be one of us. Our numbers are programed in already, in case you need us." He wraps his arms around her and gives her a gentle squeeze, which she returns. He gives her a kiss on the top of the head as well and follows his brother out the door, glancing back at Leila and Bobby as he leaves.
The boys drive off, leaving Leila's car in front of the house and her keys with Bobby. Once they had gone out of hearing range, Bobby turns to Leila. "Hungry?"
Leila simply nods. She didn't know how to feel about this guy yet.
"I was thinking," he starts as he walks back into the kitchen, "you should rest tonight. Do what we promised the boys." He pauses his thought a moment as he comes back into the room with a box of pizza and a can of Coca-Cola. "Then tomorrow, if you're up for it, we can try doing some target practice. I need to see how good of a shot you are before I can train you," he says with a grin.
Leila looks at this man with a clear look of shock, though there was a hint of pure joy mixed in. Being stuck with this guy for a while might not be so boring after all.